tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post71312316129181642..comments2024-03-27T11:02:20.107-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: A Secret told —Susan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-35578549385636221542024-02-01T07:32:42.909-08:002024-02-01T07:32:42.909-08:00“There is no firm evidence that Dickinson sanction...“There is no firm evidence that Dickinson sanctioned the appearance of any of the ten poems published in her lifetime.”<br /><br />Habegger, Alfred. 2001. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (p. 800). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.<br />Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-2840708923305430102024-01-31T20:31:20.321-08:002024-01-31T20:31:20.321-08:00Hard to imagine, but ED may have done all that com...Hard to imagine, but ED may have done all that composition and construction for her own satisfaction of doing something well, just as she did with her early herbarium. She gave Vinnie no instructions concerning her poems. If Vinnie found the poems and ensured their publication after ED died, that was fine with her. If Vinnie burned the poems, that was also fine with her. While she lived, ED kept her poems, but apparently their final fate was left up to Vinnie. <br /><br />She did ask Vinnie to burn her letters. By not burning the letters herself, she took a chance of hurting many people. She must have trusted Vinnie totally. If so, we have wonder what secrets ED told Vinnie.<br />Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-46221675954752254802023-12-07T15:04:00.606-08:002023-12-07T15:04:00.606-08:00What is fascinating to me about these kinds of poe...What is fascinating to me about these kinds of poems is that they seem to be giving advice, but to whom? Is ED writing this for herself, as a kind of reminder? Or is it for somebody specific? (If it's for somebody specific, then they must both be in on the secret alluded to.) Or is this, as it seems to be, for a general audience? Who did ED imagine her readers to be? Did she just have faith, when she was sewing together her little books, that her exquisitely crafted poems would make it out into the world someday? She must've, because otherwise why go through the bother? It was quite a leap of faith, but it paid off in spades. <br /><br />In this light I see a parallel with William Blake, who wrote many of these aphoristic types of poems, but also had very few readers during his lifetime.d scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08242682202760522439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-42127681330075827792018-06-28T08:37:22.124-07:002018-06-28T08:37:22.124-07:00I like the way you explain ED's poems..please ... I like the way you explain ED's poems..please post them more frequently if possible.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13737707236077094544noreply@blogger.com